Santana Row was a nine building development that covers forty-two acres and
was spread out over several city blocks. Located on the southeast corner of the intersection
of Winchester Boulevard and Stevens Creek Boulevard, the project will consist of
1,200 residential units and 680,000 square feet of retail stores and restaurants. The
residential units, ranging in size from 800 to 3,000 square feet are designed as rental units
and there will be approximately 170 retail units upon completion. A seven-story hotel,
consisting of 213 suites, is to be built in the complex as well. The first two floors of the
hotel will also have retail stores and restaurants. The owner of the property is Federal
Reality Investment Trust located in Rockville, Maryland.
Each block is assigned a parcel number and a number of the parcels have multiple
buildings. The building of origin was located at 377 Santana Row in Parcel Seven.
It was under construction as part of phase one of the project. Located on Winchester
Boulevard, between Olin and Olsen Avenues, Parcel Seven was a six-story building
spread out over six acres. There were retail shops, surface and underground parking,
and residential units built on podium construction with an above-grade street over the
retail and parking level. Each floor contained approximately 225,000 square feet. The
basement was to be used exclusively for parking and the two levels of parking (104,000
square foot each) were located immediately behind the retail establishments. The
overall height was sixty-seven feet above grade, with twenty feet constructed of reinforced
concrete and the top forty-seven feet of wood frame construction.
The basement and the retail and parking levels were constructed of reinforced
concrete. The retail and the first two-above ground parking levels were approximately
twenty-feet in height. Along the outer perimeter of the podium, three-story wood-frame
residential units were being constructed. The exterior sides facing the streets had been
covered with stucco to give the appearance of being finished, but were in reality still in the
framing stage in the interior portion of the units. Immediately behind these units an elevated
street, the only one in San Jose had been constructed. Dubbed, Santana Heights, the
street was twenty-foot in width and was designed to carry the weight load of the
Department’s apparatus. An additional one-story pod was located in the interior portion of
the complex. The reinforced concrete structure was designed to accommodate the vehicle
parking for the three wooden-frame buildings being constructed on top of the podium.
Each of the buildings was three stories in height and consisted of 286 townhouses.
There was scaffolding around the entire complex at both the ground level of the
exterior as well as on top of the podium next to the three story structures. The retail and
parking areas had operational fire sprinklers. Only twenty percent of the upper level
buildings had an operational fire sprinkler system. A small portion of the northeast
section of the residential units had the sheet rock installed. Most of the roof decks were
covered in plywood, but did not have the tile roof covering in place.
Five fire hydrants were in-service on the upper deck and there were thirty hydrants
around the building. Fire extinguishers were available on site, the building had
five fully operational standpipes, and there were two fire department connections located
on opposite ends of building. All of the stairways had access to the roof, either by stairs
or by roof hatch.
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